![]() ![]() The act actually kills Osanai's physical body with a real bullet wound.ĭreams and reality have now merged. He decides to "finish the film" and take control of the dream by shooting Osanai. Osanai gives chase through Konakawa's recurring dream, causing Konakawa to realize that his recurring nightmare and anxiety result from his guilt that he never finished the film he was making with a friend. Konakawa enters the dream from his own recurring dream, and flees with Chiba back into his. ![]() However, he is interrupted by the outraged Chairman who demands that they finish off Chiba as the two share Osanai's body, they battle for control as they argue over Chiba's fate. There, Osanai admits his love for Chiba, and literally peels away Paprika's skin to reveal Chiba underneath. Paprika wakes as a butterfly pinned to a table in a room surrounded by pinned butterflies. Paprika is eventually captured by the pair after an exhausting chase. He is aided by researcher Doctor Morio Osanai, who agreed to give the Chairman his body and become the Chairman's lackey as long as he retains equal powers over his own dreams. Tracing the "roots" that controlled him, Paprika confronts the Chairman, who claims that he is in fact the "protector of the dreamworld", guarding this last haven against the inhumane horrors of reality and technology. Paprika and Shima take matters into their own hands, and find that Himuro is only an empty shell. This fails to hinder the crazed parade, which manages to claim Tokita and intrude into Konakawa's dream. After two other scientists fall victim to the DC Mini, the Chairman of the company, who was against the project to begin with, bans the use of the device completely. Upon examining Shima's dream (which consists of a lively parade of inanimate objects, instrument-playing animals, and various cultural icons), Tokita recognizes his assistant, Kei Himuro, which seems to confirm their suspicion that the theft was an inside job. Almost immediately, the chief of the department, Doctor Toratarō Shima, goes on a nonsensical tirade and jumps through a window, nearly killing himself. Because of their unfinished nature, the DC Minis can allow anyone to enter another person's dreams, giving the culprit an opportunity to get away with all sorts of malicious deeds. Unfortunately, before the government can pass a law authorizing the use of the device, three of the prototypes are stolen. Her closest ally is Doctor Kōsaku Tokita, a morbidly obese child-at-heart genius and the inventor of the DC Mini. This type of counseling session is not officially sanctioned, so Doctor Atsuko Chiba and her associates must be cautious that word does not leak out to the press regarding the nature of the DC Mini and the existence of Paprika. The movie opens with Paprika counseling Detective Konakawa Toshimi, who is plagued by a recurring dream, the incompleteness of which is a great source of personal anxiety for him. The head of the team working on this treatment, Doctor Atsuko Chiba, begins using the machine illegally to help psychiatric patients outside the research facility, using her alter-ego "Paprika", a persona she assumes in the dream world. A device called the " DC Mini" allows the user to view people's dreams, exploring their unconscious thoughts. In the near future, a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called dream therapy has been invented. Atsuko Chiba, enters the dream world under her exotic alter-ego, code name "PAPRIKA," in an attempt to discover who is behind the plot to undermine the new invention. In the wrong hands, the potential misuse of the device could be devastating, allowing the user to completely annihilate a dreamer's personality while they are asleep. Before the government can pass a bill authorizing the use of such advanced psychiatric technology, one of the prototypes is stolen, sending the research facility into an uproar. Through a device called the "DC Mini" it is able to act as a "dream detective" to enter into people's dreams and explore their unconscious thoughts. In the near future, a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called PT has been invented. ![]()
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